Karingal Court January 2020

• Lewin's Honeyeater (N)
• White Naped Honeyeater
• Brown Honeyeater
• Blue Faced Honeyeater
• White Cheeked Honeyeater
• Little Wattlebird
• Noisy Miner
• Noisy Friar Bird
• Sacred Kingfisher (N)
• Laughing Kookaburra (N)
• Variegated Fairy Wrens (N)
• Leaden Flycatcher
• Currawong
• Pheasant Cuckoo
• Brush Turkey
• Jacky Winter
• Rainbow Lorikeet (N)
• Magpie(Juv) asking to be fed
• Spangled Drongo
• Grey Thrush
• White Browed Scrubwren
• Rufous(Little) Shrike Thrush? (This bird has had me stumped for 30 years, what is it? Looks like a Grey Thrush but smaller and with smooth rufous underparts, perhaps like the NT version of the female Rufous Whistler but not streaked)

This year has been a drought year, it's been the driest summer I remember with devastating fires up and down the East Coast of Australia.
One very hot day in December a wallaby came to the back of the house panting in the heat. We put a small container of water out but I didn't see it return, later we put a decent tub out with fish in it the same as we have in 2 other places around the house. This has increased the bird activity here this year and it's been lovely to see so many, but scary to have things so tinder dry.